Word: thinker
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...society, it is unfortunate that i.e. has identified them with specific institutions. Abolishing exams, or even as a logical following, Harvard degrees, will not do away with prestige. If the final clubs were done in, a "polished" set would develop at the Casablanca, discomfiting the artist and the thinker even more that at present. After all, there isn't room for all the white shoes at Princeton...
...Entreves, a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, has specialized mainly in political history of Italy, and has written such books as Dante as a Political Thinker, Reflections on the History of Italy, The Medieval Contribution to Political Thought: Thomas Aquinas, Masilus of Padua, Richard Hooker, and Aquinas--Selected Political Writings...
...political theorist or a thinker, trying to analyze and interpret a new movement, "ism" or secular trend like Communism, Fascism, Nazism, National Socialism or the New Deal, cannot do a satisfactory job if he has to denounce all the time what he is trying to explain, in order to protect himself against the charge of being a champion of all the evils of what he is writing or talking about. If, in the light of hindsight, I had to do it all over again, I probably would decide not to write and speak about Fascism as I did. I would...
...both races at the local level." Estes Kefauver's stand and statement on the segregation issue, punctuated by a handshake with the Negro elevator operators and a kind word with the Negro bellhops in Nashville, formed a capsule of his appeal to the U.S. voter. No great thinker and no great orator, he nevertheless has a kind of political broadcasting power that gets him over to the voters as a man who speaks his mind...
Professor Allegro's discovery of evidence in the Dead Sea Scrolls that Christ had a forerunner [Feb. 6] corroborates a lecture on the Gospel of St. Matthew that was given at Bern, Switzerland way back in 1910 by a highly independent German thinker named Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925). The question of how Steiner was able to create a theory in clear accord with documentary evidence that was still underground is intriguing...